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The presence in the interior of the fireplace gives the atmosphere weight and a certain relevance, style. In our imagination, the fireplace is usually associated with warmth and comfort. In addition, the fireplace is one of the elements, indicating a certain level of prosperity and welfare of the owners of the house.
This stove can afford not every owner of a private house, and for this fireplace in high-rise buildings can only dream of. In urban apartments, which often is simply impossible for the reasons not dependent on the wishes and possibilities of the owners.
In this case, it will help the fireplace of the boxes, assembled their own hands. A little bit of effort, you will decorate their home or apartment original design out of cardboard and boxes, which will be the perfect addition to the holiday decor.
You can be sure, manufacture their own hands fireplace out of cardboard boxes and will not require a significant investment of time and Finance. To understand how to make a fireplace out of boxes with his hands, not only someone who is familiar with the rules of a real masonry fireplace, but also an ordinary housewife, and even a teenager. The main thing – it would wish to work with their hands with cardboard boxes. In this case, is not a sin to participate in a similar event with friends or acquaintances, get some master class and feeling like a connoisseur.
That can give the family a master class of making the fireplace out of the box with their hands?
With all «lightness» ideas fireplace out of cardboard boxes and manufacturing process gives the chance:
- To enhance the mood of the household and one more interesting idea;
- To freshen up the interior of one of the rooms of a house or apartment in anticipation of the holiday;
- Teach your children how to set themselves really challenging goals and implement them with your own hands;
To get started, you need to decide on a location for the imitation of cardboard. This can be a free space at the wall, or the corner of the room not occupied by furniture. It can be used to hide any construction defects in the corner.
Having defined the place, his hands measure a tape measure and calculated the expected size of the future layout of the Board, can fit in the allotted space. It is important to outline to detail the dimensions of the fireplace out of cardboard, to not have to redo your work.
After that, you should decide which option is best suited to the situation, to the style of the interior, to view online photos of the fireplaces of the boxes with your own hands and choose the option that is able to make the hands out of cardboard and boxes.
Make a drawing of the selected option, indicating the dimensions and pattern of appearance of the finished product. Count with your hands the need for cardboard boxes and their sizes. This will allow to think in advance how will be decorated the appearance of the fireplace, what and where to place decorative ornaments.
Before you begin prepare the necessary materials:
- Several large cardboard boxes, more cardboard, the easier it is to determine the optimal shape and size;
- PVA glue, PVA-M and transparent «Dragon» or «Titan»;
- Construction chalk putty;
- Paint water-based, sure – white, red and black;
- Long metre ruler, tape measure, area, and construction of the knife;
- Brush and paint roller for painting the finished product.
The manufacturer of the fireplace out of cardboard boxes and ↑
In addition to decorative function, wall fireplace boxes can be used as a stand for the hours, decorative candles or figurines, bookshelves. Often this pizza oven is made of cardboard becomes a valuable element of interior room as a Cabinet or bedside table.
To work you need to prepare free space to be able to place a large sheet of cardboard and the box itself, to transfer the necessary markup and outline the contours of the manufactured products.
If you’re lucky to pick up or get hold of a large cardboard box from the TV, washing machine or fridge, the task is considerably easier. Ready to use large cardboard boxes will eliminate the need to manufacture their own load-bearing frame-frame, which greatly simplify the work.
Otherwise to the wall of the fireplace from the box, you first need to collect a frame of a building profile or wooden slats, securing it on the wall at the location of the fireplace. Next frame will have glue cut two or three pieces of thick cardboard, connected the butt joints with glue and tape.
The design of the fireplace consists of several main parts:
- The body of the fireplace, or the portal of the two pedestals United by the add-in.
- Fireplace insert with a rectangular niche;
- Top shelf or countertop.
The basis of the fireplace put a slab of MDF cut at the estimated size of the fireplace soles with a margin on the side of 7-8cm.
The cutting and gluing of the box housing future fire ↑
As a basis for shaping the future of the body of the fireplace use the large boxes from appliances. The cardboard wall of the box has a layer structure with layers of corrugated cardboard.
As indicated in the drawing, mark out with a ruler and area location of the firebox and side cabinets fireplace from cardboard boxes. Along the axis of the opening of the furnace performed by a T-shaped incision, turns inward fold formed and affixed to the back wall. They will serve for the formation of the inner surface of the opening.
Measure, cut and insert additional elements into the housing of the boxes:
- The ceiling of the combustion chamber;
- Internal jumpers at the top of the portal and in the side structures of the body, it would enhance the design and make it more rigid;
All splices cardboard boxes and additionally sizing of the paper sheets, PVA glue and tape. At the points of contact of the face surfaces of the jumpers and cardboard sheets with the body sizing of boxes with their hands with glue «Dragon».
If desired, the rear wall of the fireplace can be turned into a repository of useful things. Enough knife to carefully cut out the holes and bend the cut piece and glue it to the side wall of the box.
The top shelf you can carry out with their hands in the form of a sandwich of two layers of thick cardboard and corrugated tape. Often for reinforcement in the construction of countertops put plywood or plastic cladding panel that will allow the fireplace to withstand the weight of the items, vases or even TV.
The finished hull out of cardboard set on the prepared Foundation of MDF and glued with tape on the inside of the structure. The outer joint between the cardboard case and cardboard bases glued paper tape and PVA.
Assembly and finishing operations ↑
After the formation of the main body portion of the fireplace of the boxes pass to a rough covering it with paper. At the same level and cut the burrs and irregularities. In places of gluing the joints clean up excess dried glue and primed.
The next operation will be painting and preparing for finishing. The prepared body of the fireplace from the box primed and two coats of white latex paint. In places where can appear the inscriptions on the packaging, you should perform the sealing or apply additional layer of primer.
The upper part of the portal, especially the place of fastening the upper cover and cardboard walls must be covered with décor. Usually used for this purpose OIKOS, friezes or ceiling moldings from Styrofoam. Sticker perform with the help of «Dragon».
The final step is finishing the staining of the fireplace, usually in white or beige. The inner part of the furnace and stick with panels that mimic the embossed red brick. On the exposed part of the foundations of the fireplace lay a simulated rubble stone or brick moulding.
One of the popular types of chimney texture is imitation brick or marble facing material.
The result – there is a reason to be proud of the fireplace from the box, made with their own hands.
